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    Blue Ameraucana cock free to good home

    Hi folks, One of the "pullets" I got as day-old chicks at the end of April has started to cock-a-doodle-doo :-( He's a gorgeous blue Ameraucana. The pix I have aren't great quality (my chickenyard is roofed, so it's all shade) but you can get the idea. I live in a residential neighborhood in...
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    The waiting. The waiting is killing me.

    I have three Ayam Cemani eggs on day 21. About 16 hours ago I had my first external pip, then nothing... nothing. You can definitely hear cheeping in there, but it's hard to tell which eggs over the hum of the incubator. This morning one small external pip on a second egg. Excuse me while I go...
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    Power went out at 4 this morning. So much for th eBrinsea EcoGlow.

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    Panning for poop

    I thought I'd share my lazy chicken-keeper's method for poop deck maintenance. The whole business takes me about 3 minutes from start to finish and is pretty painless. My secret weapon is a gold-panning sieve that cost me about 11 bucks: The poop deck (and the floor of the chickenhouse) is...
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    Incubator recs?

    Newbie apologies if there's a thread somewhere that covers this topic--trying to sift through the vast number of results returned by any of my searches just defeated me. Feel free to just point me in another direction. I'd like to know which incubators you all recommend, and if there are any...
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    One of my nest eggs has disappeared...

    I'm guessing there's a snake with a bad bellyache somewhere in my neighborhood.
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    Over-the-top coops

    My apologies if there's already a thread dedicated to this; I'm a relative noob, and I looked around and couldn't find one. I'd like to see people's pictures of their extravagant or fanciful coops or runs. We built our coop using leftover materials from the various home improvement projects...
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    Teaching new pups to respect the chickens

    Does anyone have experience bringing up dogs so that they won't chase/kill chickens? I have two rescued track greyhounds and I haven't even attempted to acclimate them to coexisting with my birds. They've been bred and trained to ruthlessly go after small animals, and I figure trying to...
  9. johanssonmel

    Hello, y'all!

    I've just returned to chicken-keeping after a long (20-year) hiatus. We always used to keep chickens, but then I took a job that required constant traveling, much of it international, and it didn't seem fair to say to my husband, "Let's you take care of some chickens." Last March I was...
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